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The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
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 (October 10, 2016 at 8:12 am)MJ the Skeptical Wrote: When you become a more serious, full time atheist and graduate to anti-theist and road scholar, check out God is Not Great by Hitchens, one of the best books out there. that is on audiobook too.
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 (October 10, 2016 at 3:00 am)Czechlervitz29 Wrote: I might become a little annoying about my rural american heritage until i find some other person who can relate, please forgive me. Well I grew up in South Africa in a community that is very much like Bible Belt America, so I can relate. I can also tell you that I am now 43, left belief behind in 2008, and you get over the anger eventually. But explore it thoroughly as long as you need to. Good luck.
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life." - Terry Pratchett
 Quote:I loved The God Delusion, also, but Richard sometimes comes across as being "angry'". When the delusional religitards start yammering about what their god can supposedly do I get pretty angry too. God doesn't do shit.  (October 10, 2016 at 8:52 am)Czechlervitz29 Wrote:(October 10, 2016 at 8:12 am)MJ the Skeptical Wrote: When you become a more serious, full time atheist and graduate to anti-theist and road scholar, check out God is Not Great by Hitchens, one of the best books out there. This is true, and I highly recommend it, one of the best audio-books out there since you can actually hear Hitch narrate it.
If the hypothetical idea of an afterlife means more to you than the objectively true reality we all share, then you deserve no respect.
 (October 10, 2016 at 8:52 am)Czechlervitz29 Wrote:(October 10, 2016 at 8:12 am)MJ the Skeptical Wrote: When you become a more serious, full time atheist and graduate to anti-theist and road scholar, check out God is Not Great by Hitchens, one of the best books out there. Is it narrated well? I find Dawkins to ponderous to listen to for long periods.
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting, I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder  (October 8, 2016 at 5:53 am)Czechlervitz29 Wrote: The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins is in audiobook form on youtube. I am enjoying it currently. It makes me mad at my family for raising me catholic and then evangelical. But It makes me feel better that I know how deluded they still are and I am not. that warmth you are feeling that sense of 'you know better' that dawkins is giving you.. It is also know by the term self righteousness. enjoy. 
RE: The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
October 11, 2016 at 1:39 pm
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The Return of the King of TQ.....lol. Just what are you trying to imply, that self righteousness is a bad thing...or that it's bad thing when it's not religiously based self righteousness, such as your own?
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 RE: The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
October 11, 2016 at 2:51 pm
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(October 11, 2016 at 1:38 pm)Drich Wrote:(October 8, 2016 at 5:53 am)Czechlervitz29 Wrote: The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins is in audiobook form on youtube. I am enjoying it currently. It makes me mad at my family for raising me catholic and then evangelical. But It makes me feel better that I know how deluded they still are and I am not. Even if that were true, it still beats the hell (pun intended) out of the warm fuzzy feeling (pun intended) you get from "my God will burn you all for eternity mehehe".
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
 I have read three of his works; The Selfish Gene, The God Delusion and the Blind Watchmaker and they are a fantastic read. Royal Institution lectures Anyone who likes Richard Dawkins and his way of delivering his message across, should watch these. This is what I grew up on:
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The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
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